Carbon Capture Plant in Germany
Vattenfall, one of the largest energy companies in Europe, has established a new type of power plant that can bring answer to today’s problem of climate change. The technology, carbon capture and storage (CCS), is capable of reducing nearly all carbon dioxide which is emitted by a normal coal power plant. The carbon dioxide emitted will not be released to the atmosphere, but compressed to a liquid and pumped into deep porous rock. Then it will be injected for permanent storage in a gas field.
“This technology will become more important than offshore wind farms,” claimed Vattenfall boss Lars Josefsson ( www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,36289,00.html ,2008). It is not a bluff, as it is as clean but more effective in fulfilling energy needs. According to Hattaka, the process was viable because companies need to pay for every ton of carbon dioxide they release into the air. “At 30 to 35 euros per emission certificate, the nechnology breaks even,” he said.
However, the plant that existed is comparably small to those conventional coal power plants. There is a plan to build a bigger “demonstration plants” in 7 to 12 years from now, but some critics said that they are uncertain if it would work on large scale. In addition to this, Thomas Becker of BUND, a German conservation group, also said that the power station will obtain 10 percent less power from coal than conventional plants did, and it was not clear if there were enough suitable sites to dump the CO2. As conclusion, they suggest to concentrate on far cheaper renewable energy.
Despite of the critics, the European Union wants to have 10 or 12 full-scale CCS power stations within the next few years, although it is not clear who will pay and run the plants.
Taken from:
“Carbon Capture Plant Opens in Germany Amid Reservations”, 9 September 2008, retrieved from http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,36289,00.html , September 11, 2008.
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firstly, sorry that i cannot find the article you use in that url.
you have done well in summarizing the article, however, i think it is not good to always quote from the source. it doesn't train you to paraphrase the article, which is i think is important. moreover, you should not use the website;s url in in-text citation, instead, you should write only the author's name or title of the article and date. then, the url can be put in the references.
i like the coherence made by combining the quotation and clarifications in your paragraph. also as always, you do not leave any grammatical mistake, well done.
Thanks for your info, the correct one is :
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3628912,00.html
Well done, I think your summarizing is quite good. It is clear, coherent and well relevant to the main article. However, according to what Sjienindro said, I also think that your use of intext citation is rather casual and unsystematic. Therefore, you'd better pay more attention to the citation and try to put them in the standard forms as we have learnt from the APA style.
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